fetch vs Surfraw

fetch

wik is use to get information about anything on the shell using Wikipedia. [Moved to: https://github.com/yashsinghcodes/wik] (by yashsinghcodes)

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fetch		Surfraw
	Project
10	Mentions	3
239	Stars	-
-	Growth	-
8.0	Activity	-
about 2 years ago	Latest Commit	-
Python	Language
MIT License	License	-

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

fetch

Posts with mentions or reviews of fetch. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-02-25.

Terminal Based Wikipedia
1 project | /r/linux | 25 Feb 2022

1 project | /r/commandline | 25 Feb 2022
Hacker News top posts: Feb 25, 2022
3 projects | /r/hackerdigest | 25 Feb 2022

Show HN: Terminal Based Wikipedia\ (58 comments)
Show HN: Terminal Based Wikipedia
1 project | /r/hackernews | 25 Feb 2022

10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Feb 2022

I think it was fixed with this commit - https://github.com/yashsinghcodes/fetch/commit/0e0c59b4d24da...
Fetch Command Line Wikipedia
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Oct 2021
Command Line Wikipedia Get Quick Response from Your Terminal
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Oct 2021
CLI-Wikipedia
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Oct 2021

Surfraw

Posts with mentions or reviews of Surfraw. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-07-18.

Setting up lynx
4 projects | /r/commandline | 18 Jul 2022

Also going to share this one, more for everyone else that's forgotten about it, https://gitlab.com/surfraw/Surfraw turns your terminal into a search engine. Its basically a wrapper around lynx (or any browser via the $BROWSER environment variable) to about 99% of every searchable site out there. Can even be extended with simple bash for new sites or even apis (yes, xml/rest/graphql apis).
Show HN: Terminal Based Wikipedia
10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Feb 2022
Mozilla is officially against an open net. Wants governments to pass laws suppressing "conspiracy theory" content. AKA any recognition that our governing class are malevolent. If you use Mozilla, ditch it.
3 projects | /r/thehatedone | 14 Jun 2021

What are some alternatives?

When comparing fetch and Surfraw you can also consider the following projects:

gopherpedia.com - gopher server for gopherpedia.com, an interface to wikipedia

emacs-w3m - emacs-w3m, a simple Emacs interface to w3m

min - A fast, minimal browser that protects your privacy

orioledb - OrioleDB – building a modern cloud-native storage engine (... and solving some PostgreSQL wicked problems) 🇺🇦

video-to-ascii - It is a simple python package to play videos in the terminal using characters as pixels

bin - My ~/bin dir

pywikibot - A Python library that interfaces with the MediaWiki API. This is a mirror from gerrit.wikimedia.org. Do not submit any patches here. See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Developer_account for contributing.

so - A terminal interface for Stack Overflow

inkstitch - Ink/Stitch: an Inkscape extension for machine embroidery design

youtube-dl - Command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com and other video sites